The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 244

"It must be seventy-seven--and I really can't die for him, so nothing can be done," said the nurse, sadly. "

Who acts: seventy six, nurse · What happens: be, not die, do, say · To what, where: seventy seven, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seventy six, nurse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 seven	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 seven	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 seven	cop
5	seventy	seventy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seven	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 seven	punct
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 said	obl
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	14 die	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 die	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 die	nsubj
11	really	really	ADV	_	14 die	advmod
12	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 die	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 die	advmod
14	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 seven	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 die	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	22 done	advmod
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 done	nsubj:pass
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 done	aux:pass
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 die	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 nurse	det
27	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 said	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sadly	punct
29	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	25 said	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
31	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	must	seventy six = six	seventy seven		tree rules
2	not die in a quote	can	the nurse = nurse		for man	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for he=Theme
3	do in a quote	can · passive		nothing		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	past	the nurse		sadly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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